Secondary Sex Characteristic

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the genetically determined sex characteristics that are not functionally necessary for reproduction (pitch of the voice and body hair and musculature)

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Classifications

per-axis with provenance

Entity Type

Unknown—authoritativeglossary_import_default_pending_classifier

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Sensitivity

unclassified

Information Class

unclassified

Variants

5 surface forms

synonym: secondary sex charactersecondary sexual characteristic
plural: Secondary Sex Characteristics
possessive: Secondary Sex Characteristic's
pluralpossessive: Secondary Sex Characteristics'

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